From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: %ebp weirdness (and >10 operands problems)
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 1997 07:14:22 -0800
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nikki wrote:
> 
> is there any reason why
> 
> asm volatile ("movl $32,%%ebp"
>                 ::: "%ebp" );
> 
> is completely ignored by gcc? by that i mean that i've told it ebp has been
> clobbered and on the next line it generates in the .S file it promptly tries
> to load something using ebp and hence crashes miserably :)
> i thought the whole idea of having a clobber list was so that it knew not
> to use that value and to reload it, or push/pull it whatever.

Compiling with -fomit-frame-pointer might help

Elliott

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